The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-09
Popular Science.

To produce good gloss on linen, pour a
pint of boiling water upon two ounces of gum
arabic, covert and let stand over night; add
a spoonful to the starch.
To remove kerosene from a carpet, lay
blotterS or soft brown paper over
the spot, and press with a warm iron.
Repeat with fresh papers till spot is re-
| moved.
Sing to your children, if you can turn a
tune. 1t is worth your while to cultivate
your voice now, if you never did it before.
Nowhere else-perhaps not even In heaven
will you have such loving and generous
audience.
1t is a great mistake to clean brass articles
with acid, as they very soon become dull
after such treatment. Sweet oil and putty
powder, followed by soap and water, is one
of the best mediums for frightening brass
and copper.
Owing to the increased electrical intensity
of the atmosphere, which is induced by the
| continual evulsion of steam and smoke, DIR.
Andres estimates that the danger from
| lightning is from three to five times greater
than it was fifty years ago.
Fine wood cabinets should be wiped out
with a soft cloth; the corners especially may
be brushed with a small hair whisk. If
the surface has been polished and is grown
dull with age or use. a very little linseed-
oil on wooden rag may be used to go
over it.
Two ounces of soda dissolved in quart of
hot water will make ready and useful solu-
ton for cleaning old painted work pre-
paratory to repainting. This mixture, in
the above proportion, should be applied
when warm, and the woodwork afterward
washed with water to remove all traces of
soda.
For a green transparent varnish for
metals, grind small quantity of Chinese
blue with double the quantity Of finely
powdered chromate of potash lit requires the
most elaborate grinning); add sufficient
quantity of copal varnish thinned with tur-
pentine The tone may be altered by adding
more or less of one or the other of the in
gradients.
Some of the features of shorthand writ
ing, synchronous- multiplex telegraphy and
tvpeWriting are combined in a system of
steno-telegraphy invented by M. G. A.
Cassagnes, Of Paris. In recent experiments
ovor a wire running from Paris to Orleans
and back, messages were sent at the rate OF
over 300 words a minute, that being the
highest speed attainable by a nimble-finger-
ed operator. By means of an automatic
transmitting apparatus using strip of
paper previously perforated, as in some of
the systems of telegraph already in vogue
1000 words per hour were sent over line
$50 kilomoters in length, the messages being
automatically printedby the receiving in
strument.-Science.
The stories, once so current, that seeds
taken from ancient Egyptian tombs have
grown are believed, If not demonstrably
false, to lack the guarantees of truth that
tales of the kind should requires and nothing
as to the vitality Of seeds can be built upon
them But DR.. Lindley tells Of raspberries
that were raised in the gardens of the Horti-
cultural Society from seed taken from the
stomach of man who was buried in bar
row near the time of the Emberor Hadrian;
and Professor Duchartre and others tell of
seeds, whose identity is properly vouched
for, taken from under the foundations of an
dollhouse in Paris probably from the origi-
nal soil of the island, and, therefore, coeval
with the city, which terminated and proved
to be seeds Of Juncus dufoniuS, an indigen-
Gus plant of that SOIL